Acts 15:20 References
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but that we write to them that they abstain from athings contaminated by idols and from bfornication and from cwhat is strangled and from blood.
a Exodus 34:15-17, Daniel 1:8, Acts 15:29, 1 Corinthians 8:7, 1 Corinthians 8:13, 1 Corinthians 10:7, 1 Corinthians 10:14-28, Revelation 2:14, Revelation 2:20
Exodus 34
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otherwise you might make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land and they would play the harlot with their gods and asacrifice to their gods, and someone bmight invite you to eat of his sacrifice,
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and ayou might take some of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters might play the harlot with their gods and cause your sons also to play the harlot with their gods.
Daniel 1
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But Daniel made up his mind that he would not adefile himself with the bking's choice food or with the cwine which he drank; so he sought permission from the commander of the officials that he might not defile himself.
Acts 15
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that you abstain from athings sacrificed to idols and from ablood and from athings strangled and from afornication; if you keep yourselves free from such things, you will do well. Farewell."
1 Corinthians 8
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However not all men ahave this knowledge; but bsome, being accustomed to the idol until now, eat food as if it were sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.
1 Corinthians 8
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Therefore, aif food causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause my brother to stumble.
1 Corinthians 10
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Do not be aidolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, "bTHE PEOPLE SAT DOWN TO EAT AND DRINK, AND STOOD UP TO cPLAY."
1 Corinthians 10
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I speak as to wise men; you judge what I say.
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Is not the acup of blessing which we bless a sharing in the blood of Christ? Is not the bbread which we break a sharing in the body of Christ?
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No, but I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they asacrifice to demons and not to God; and I do not want you to become sharers in demons.
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aYou cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the table of the Lord and bthe table of demons.
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aAll things are lawful, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful, but not all things bedify.
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If aone of the unbelievers invites you and you want to go, beat anything that is set before you without asking questions for conscience' sake.
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But aif anyone says to you, "This is meat sacrificed to idols," do not eat it, for the sake of the one who informed you, and for conscience' sake;
Revelation 2
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'But aI have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the bteaching of Balaam, who kept teaching Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, cto eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit acts of immorality.